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conspicuously reticulated bcneatii ; petioles stout, about 5 mm. 

 lon^, about as long as the dense clusters of staminate flowers : 

 fruit glabrous, depressed-globose, slightly and obtusely 3-lobed, 

 about S mm. in diameter. 



Thickets, West Street Road, near Nassau, New Providence, 

 Bahamas, Britton, no. 84, April 8, 1904 (type) ; New Providence, 

 W. C. Coker, nos. 157 and 160, June 24, 1903 ; Deep Creek, 

 Andros, Northrop, no. 610, June, 1890. 



Savin crythroxyloidcs has leaves nearly equally dark green, 

 shining and reticulated on both sides. N. L. Bkitton. 



Notes on Cuban Plants. — Among the plants collected in 

 Cuba by Dr. and Mrs. Britton and myself in March, 1903, or by 

 me alone in April, are several introduced species that appear as 

 weeds which, so far as I have been able to ascertain, have not 

 heretofore been reported from the West Indies. Two of these 

 are small composites, hailing from Mexico. 



Calyptrocarpiis vialis Less., a low creeping, apparently peren- 

 nial plant, although described as an annual, was first observed on 

 the grounds surrounding the historic shrine, IMonserrate, at Ma- 

 tanzas. Here it was matted among the low grass on this promi- 

 nent eminence, attaining its greatest perfection in the shade of 

 the great spreading " laurel " {Firus rcligiosa L.) but perfectly 

 happy in the more sunn}' places. Later I found it at Havana, a 

 common weed on vacant lots in the heart of the city, while at 

 the beautiful " Parque Colon " laborers were engaged, on their 

 haunches, pulling it out from among the Bermuda-grass lawns. 

 It was again collected the following August by Britton and 

 Wilson at Cumbre near Matanzas, also from the Isle of Pines in 

 April, 1904, where Mr. A. H. Curtiss collected two small plants 

 in " tobacco beds " at Nueva Gerona. 



Dysodia porophylla Cav. A small marigold-like plant with 

 orange-yellow flowers was also first observed near Monserrate, in 

 the taller grass more remote from the shrine and again in the thin 

 soil over the coral rock on the north coast west of Havana, at 

 Buena Vista. Britton and Wilson also collected it at Cumbre. 

 In neither case was it abundant. It is probably of very recent 

 introduction. J. A. Shafer. 



